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Originally Posted by 2ndgenz28
But thats kinda the way it is in computers. Within 6months what was the best is now junk and tech suport says u need to upgrade / spend more when it goes funky. Like i had no trouble running a hugh wd hd on windows me but maxtor wont show right so i can change the drive letter. All maxtor says is spend 2000 on a new pc
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Yeah I guess my point was more its not like there was some huge advances in technology. Aside from being PCI vs PCIex like some of the cards are today (not even all of them!) the card I have is basically identical feature wise to what is currently available (in fact it even has more features!). Hard drives speed up, SATA gets faster, Processors get faster, etc, but sound cards basically stalled around the time this one came out. Heck Creative's X-Fi Fatality cards which is their main line came out in early 2007 which makes them a dinosaur in computer terms. Of their whole line only the X-Fi Titanium HD is relatively new and its a niche product aimed at people like me or audiophiles building HTPC's.
PS this is why I game on a PS3. It always just works. I spent so many years going through hardware every 6 months to play the newest games. I remember sending out a box of like 15 random cards from a PowerVR accelerator daughter card, to the first ATi RAGE Pro, couple Sound Blasters etc to a friend who wanted to just use them for experimenting. That box was worthless but I had paid around $1000 for everything in it!